If you’ve spent even a little time on TikTok or Instagram Reels as of late, you’re probably familiar with a little kid named “The Rizzler.” He’s an eight-year-old from New Jersey who, if we’re...
There was a quiet intensity in the room and a universal understanding about how influential the man with the easy smile across the table was. At the center sat Mark Birkhead, a Wake Forest alumnus visiting...
If I see one more LinkedIn post beginning with the words “I’m excited to announce that this summer […],” I’m going to start sending my therapy bill to their headquarters.
Generation Z is...
One night in the basement of Luter during my freshman year, I added an ex-friend from high school to a group chat for a Buzzfeed quiz party. It was an accident, of course. My suitemates and I had the grand...
We all need to write more.
From something as silly as a diary with a fuzzy teddy bear on it when I was 8, to my moody teenage scratchings of poetry in the margins of my notebooks, to my endless writing...
This letter represents the view of Old Gold & Black Deputy Editor Skyler Villamar-Jones and Managing Editor Andrew Braun, not the Old Gold & Black.
This year’s Student Government election...
An email inbox can feel like a battleground, especially for a university student. One must sort through professor announcements, countless advertisements, endless surveys and the occasional announcement...
In a previous article, I called Donald Trump a king.
This week, he decided that was a fitting title.
Last Sunday, in an interview with NBC news, Trump claimed he was “not joking” about running...
In 1989, when my grandmother passed away from cancer, our family did not have answers as to how or why. She had simply been “sick” and unable to recover. By the time my Aunt Gail was diagnosed with...
Wake Forest has made praiseworthy efforts in sustainability, but it's time to ask: Could the campus be doing more to expand these efforts beyond just the Office of Sustainability?
Climate change is...
Before this semester, I did not realize how much of my senior spring would be spent quantifying my life, distilling my value as a future employee or graduate student into a single page of 11-point font.
College...
Our worth isn’t defined by how much we can cram into a day, how many credit hours we can take, how many clubs we can join or how many people we can talk to. Wake Forest students don’t do anything halfway....
